MARCH 21, 2024 – Several Columnists and Reporters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Vanessa C\u00e1rdenas<\/strong>, Executive Director of America\u2019s Voice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe must be unequivocal in our condemnation and clear-eyed about the dangers of the amplification to the replacement and invasion conspiracy. It is not just about hate towards immigrants, but an attempt to scapegoat immigrants to undermine our democracy. If the multi-racial electoral and governance system is illegitimate then fighting against it, even violently, becomes more legitimate, which is at the heart of Republicans\u2019 electoral argument in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among the key commentaries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greg Sargent<\/strong> of The New Republic on Elon Musk\u2019s mainstreaming of the \u201cgreat replacement theory\u201d: Sargent writes how Musk\u2019s Twitter (X) feed has been busy promoting the dangerous theory and \u201cpurports to lay bare a vast conspiracy among Democrats to \u2018flood\u2019 the country with \u2018illegals\u2019 to lock in a \u2018permanent voting majority.\u2019 \u2026 it illustrates the growing sophistication of far-right information spaces \u2026 Musk can deny embracing \u2018great replacement theory\u2019 all he wants. But it\u2019s a scam. In addition to pushing it himself, he\u2019s used X to create a far right information safe-space where an extraordinary outpouring of \u2018great replacement\u2019 and \u2018white genocide\u2019 propaganda is absolutely flourishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lest anyone forget, the very basis for the extraordinary actions being taken by the State of Texas to wrest control of foreign policy, borders, immigration and deportation away from the federal government is the assertion that Texas is facing a hostile \u201cinvasion\u201d by an organized influx of migrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The dangers of this type of politics don\u2019t stop there \u2013 notably, America\u2019s Voice has been highlighting how the immigration fear-mongering and falsehoods also serve as a crucial link in the right-wing effort to delegitimize the democratic process, stoke fear that elections are rigged and justify political violence as a result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gabe Ortiz<\/strong> at the America\u2019s Voice blog, \u201cMusk\u2019s Ongoing Amplification of the Replacement Theory Uses Immigrants To Sow Election Distrust,\u201d noting: \u201cMusk\u2019s tweets are not random speculation. He\u2019s instead an active participant in a right-wing campaign attempting to use immigrants to sow doubt and distrust in our electoral process, socializing the idea that any election result they do not like can be blamed on this conspiracy of fraudulent immigrant voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Growing Dangers of Right-Wing and GOP Immigration Lies and Conspiracies MARCH 21, 2024 – Several Columnists and Reporters According to Vanessa C\u00e1rdenas, Executive Director of America\u2019s Voice: \u201cWe must be unequivocal in our condemnation and clear-eyed about the dangers of the amplification to the replacement and invasion conspiracy. It is not just about hate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,50,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fascism","category-media","category-pollical-analysis"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4896,"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions\/4896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
America\u2019s Voice has long highlighted the real world dangers \u2013 as already witnessed in places such as Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Charlottesville, and El Paso \u2013 of the right-wing\u2019s continued mainstreaming of the \u201creplacement\u201d conspiracy and its related \u201cinvasion\u201d assertion. These dangers are ever-more real given the growing amplification of such conspiracies by Musk and other right-wing actors along with Republican candidates and elected officials<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rex Huppke\u2019s <\/strong>USA Today column referenced the disqualifying nature of both Donald Trump\u2019s dangerous dehumanizing nativism and his anti-democratic threats, noting: \u201cTrump\u2019s \u2018blood bath\u2019 line overshadowed more dangerous comments \u2026 Of greater importance, I\u2019d argue, was the fact that Trump\u2019s Saturday rally in Dayton began with an announcer saying, \u2018Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated Jan. 6 hostages.\u2019\u2026 The presumptive GOP presidential nominee has taken to calling the charged, tried, convicted and imprisoned insurrectionist-lunkheads who attacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021 \u2018hostages\u2019 He referred to them as \u2018unbelievable patriots.\u2019\u2026 Trump also continued his dehumanizing anti-immigrant rhetoric \u2026 One weekend of Trump babble should disqualify him.\u201d
Zachary Mueller, Senior Research Director of America\u2019s Voice, noted: \u201cRepublicans at the highest levels are spreading the conspiratorial lie about a plot to pollute the November election with fraudulent immigrant votes as an excuse to restrict voting by American citizens and in order to prime the country for another assault on our democracy if the results are not in their favor.\u201d Read Mueller\u2019s full analysis in \u201cSetting the Stage for Another January 6th: Anti-Immigrant Conspiracies Help Delegitimize Elections and Democracy\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vanessa C\u00e1rdenas<\/strong>, Executive Director of America\u2019s Voice, summed it up well: \u201cTrump\u2019s anti-immigrant language, his allusions to violence and his support for the January 6th insurrectionists aren\u2019t different parts of his stump speech \u2013 they are all core planks of his larger anti-democratic strategy and pursuit of power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n